Place · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades

A 1950s diner inside the 1980s town, exempt from safe-room rules and staffed by flightless imps, where every dish is labelled with its buff; behind the jukebox a hallway to the Upgrades counter, a dead imp, a crayon note and a disintegration trap — and Akuma, waiting in a storeroom.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 14 — Hungry Eyes; the Hairpin and the Lollipop
• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
• Chapter 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
• Chapter 39 — The Lollipop: a needle over the singer

Arc

'Grand Opening Soon' (ch. 14); the invoice (ch. 23); imps, labelled buffs, 'Sledgehammer', Hickster, the note and the trap (ch. 37); Akuma's account (ch. 38).